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Strip Your Stash

Liberate your stash with this timesaving quilting class! Learn how to sew leftover fabric into strip sets, then make six quilt designs and five other fun projects.

If your stash is growing to epic proportions, strip it down! In this class, you'll learn the fast, easy and thrifty technique of strip piecing. Starting with color matching techniques, you'll work with the fabric you already have in your collection to make small gifts or a beautiful heirloom quilt. With Nancy Smith's help, use every last scrap to make 6 different quilt designs, plus 5 clever projects, including pillows, waterproof snack bags, table linens, notebook covers and more. As you work from fat quarters and yardage down to bits and pieces, nothing will go to waste in this class. Break out all that beautiful fabric you've been saving for a special occasion and put it to use!

Lesson 5. Paint Box

Lesson 6. Kaleidoscope

Swirling, colorful strip-set triangles set into hexagons form the patterns of "Kaleidoscope."

19:50

Lesson 7. Curved Play

Nancy throws you a curve as she demonstrates how to cut and piece sinuous shapes in "Curved Play."

35:34

Lesson 8. Good to the Last Scrap

Nothing goes to waste in this class! From your strip set scraps, you'll create five cute projects that make great gifts, including placemats and napkins, a 16" pillow, waterproof snack bags and clever notebook covers.

"I was expecting this to be more ideas for using jelly rolls and was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. I got so many wonderful ideas for using up some of my stash by making strip sets of different widths. Also enjoyed the clever ways of using up smaller scraps, especially the snack bags. This class is great for beginners and more experienced quilters." - Ruth HurleyJarrell, TX

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Lesson plan

13:07

Lesson 1. Getting Started

Get started with Nancy Smith, prolific quilter, quilt shop owner, author of more than 70 books and fabric designer. She'll dive right into a discussion of color combinations.

23:55

Lesson 2. Making Stripped Yardage

Here's where the magic happens! Cut your stash of fat quarters into strips, then stitch and press them to create a whole new fabric.

23:56

Lesson 3. Carnival Squares & Up and Down

Using the window template included in your class materials, you'll master the "Carnival Squares" and "Up and Down" quilt designs.

8:10

Lesson 4. Candy Strips

"Candy Strips" – not stripes! – is another bold design to try. Set on a neutral background, the strip sets create a striking vertical design.

Lesson 5. Paint Box

Lesson 6. Kaleidoscope

Swirling, colorful strip-set triangles set into hexagons form the patterns of "Kaleidoscope."

19:50

Lesson 7. Curved Play

Nancy throws you a curve as she demonstrates how to cut and piece sinuous shapes in "Curved Play."

35:34

Lesson 8. Good to the Last Scrap

Nothing goes to waste in this class! From your strip set scraps, you'll create five cute projects that make great gifts, including placemats and napkins, a 16" pillow, waterproof snack bags and clever notebook covers.

The instructor

Nancy Smith, Instructor of Strip Your Stash

Nancy Smith, a quilter for more than 40 years, was co-owner of Great American Quilt Factory. She co-authored more than 70 quilt books for Possibilities and C & T Publishing and helped design more than 100 fabric lines.

Ratings & reviews

Class rating

(92 reviews)

Wonderful class

by austinite55 on July 31, 2015

This was a wonderful class for using up some of my stash. I have lots of fat quarters and short yardage that I would love to use. This class gives me lots of ideas.

This was a wonderful class for using up some of my stash. I have lots of fat quarters and short yardage that I would love to use. This class gives me lots of ideas.

Making Great Strips

by mmilne232057101 on July 16, 2015

Nancy's tips and demos are very easy to follow. Loved all the color teaching thanks

Nancy's tips and demos are very easy to follow. Loved all the color teaching thanks

Extremely pleased with this class

by Liz Hartrich on July 2, 2015

I loved this class! Nancy is amazing. Her instructions made sense, were simple to follow, tips were fantastic and I was able to make my first quilt ever. This class is so versatile, I'm already working on my second quilt which looks completely different from the first.

I loved this class! Nancy is amazing. Her instructions made sense, were simple to follow, tips were fantastic and I was able to make my first quilt ever. This class is so versatile, I'm already working on my second quilt which looks completely different from the first.

I'm A Newbie To Quilting.

by lollywild1025295 on May 26, 2015

I can't wait to see what she will go with these strips. Very easy to follow!

I can't wait to see what she will go with these strips. Very easy to follow!